Lotto

Lotto is a game which is easily set up and can keep a group of children involved in various ways.

Objectives

Children ages 4 and up can recognize and match identical pictures Lang. IB
Children ages 1 ½-2 years can identify simple pictures Lang. IB
All of the children will be able to learn and notice when their lotto board is completed.

 

Materials

Simple lotto games (animals, objects) that can be found in toy store. We like the animal lotto game published by National Wildlife Association. (They also publish Ranger Rick Magazine—an ill-concealed but well deserved plug). Also, teachers at Circle have made games using dinosaurs (Who has the Tyrannosaurus Rex?), space pictures, shapes, numbers, letters, toys, and many other themes. See Variation 1. Let game boards do double duty by making one set of matching cards and a set of "go together" card or a set of opposites to be used with the same game board.

Procedures

1. Have a group of children sit at the table. Give each one a game board.

Explain that there is a matching card for every square on the game board.

2. Hold up a card and ask "Who has the _____? E.g., purple butterfly"?

3. Younger children will enjoy (and need) the experience of matching and labeling pictures.